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More or less the same as 9.1, except:
* aticonfig now, for the first time, says that POWERplay is not supported by my GPU. Strangely, I've been using POWERplay for many fglrx-releases (via the old atieventsd method), but support is obviously completely gone now. Even more funny is that "Auto powerstates" still seems to be enabled by default, and this crashes X when I unplug AC. So I still need to do an "aticonfig --auto-powerstates=off" to get stable operation, even though the driver says POWERplay is unsupported with "aticonfig --lsp" !

Otherwise, much the same. XVideo still unusably slow with Compiz, works OK without.

A few positive points:
* General performance is obviously improved in the later Catalyst-releases, both 2D and 3D, it's never been this good before (if disregarding video). Easily noticable when using Compiz.
* Execpt for the problems mentioned above, the driver is stable, even if running Compiz and using suspend/resume.

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A few positive points:
* General performance is obviously improved in the later Catalyst-releases, both 2D and 3D, it's never been this good before (if disregarding video). Easily noticable when using Compiz.

I'm seeing *drastic* improvements with video playback using XV. I don't know if it applies across the board to all cards, but for me, it's dramatically better than 9.1. No more distortions and Xine doesn't flake out anymore.

Wow. Color me almost satisifed.

Edit: OpenGL apps + composite are still bad. Google earth still flickers like a candle if you've got desktop effects enabled in KDE4.